HOW DO YOU OPEN THE DOOR? A pick-a-path adventure!
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A puzzle for budding adventurers - can you pick an ancient lock?
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Only Lloyd the Beige himself could hold my full, undivided attentiom for over half an hour using only a wooden door, some string and a stick.
same!
And he’s only talking about them.
Charlie Chapman held the audience's attention for a considerable time using a stick and a grate set into the street. Trying to remember the movie, it might be "Modern Times".
damn it!! I felt like this was 5 minutes!! >:0
I love this channel. He's even referenced by my favorite channel, InRange TV
Now that's an unboxing video
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When playing AD&D back in the 1980's, we took chickens with us. Every time we needed to enter a suspicious place, we ran the chickens in first.
Many a DM was constantly annoyed by us.
hehe, well played! BUT as a GM I would let your food mold
"it was not packed waterproof! I said it was raining and you didn't care all the way" and let you starve in a dungeon and suggest:
"Well, ...the chickens look very tasty at this time - ... Of COURSE you can lit a fire, no problem, here, the knife ... "
The players throw the chickens in.... nothing happens.
The players attempt to retrieve said chickens, set off a heap of traps.
The chicken walks in, and starts making a lot of noise as its laying an egg. Guards rush in trying to figure out what the noise is about
We used pigeons.
until the chicken runs in circles and pecks at the floor in one spot jk idk how chickens act.
mission impossible 8:
37 minutes of tom cruise fiddling around with a string and wooden key until lindybeige comes around as a guard: get fooked!
I would watch yhat
@@jolonghthong yes
"Ah! Finally home from a long day of work! Now, to begin the 10 minute-long ritual to unlock my front door..."
-Sting trough key
-Key trough door
-Pull doorstring and hold slightly
-Pull keystring hard
-Push door
Can be done in under 10 seconds.
And now you know why Linus Yale became a household name, with, you know, a key. that. Just Works.
Suddenly, I have gained an immense appreciation and thankfulness for modern door latches/locks....
😐Back to the time machine with you.
There's possibly a second type of key to this lock. Just thread a bunch of beads onto the door string. Preferably round ones.
As you feed enough of them onto the door string to where you hit the bolt inside and have some outside the door, pull the door string taught and then push the beads and the door string in, you've made a flexible self guiding "stick" to push the bolt in.
Brilliant! This is the best solution, because it works for any length and doesn't require an additional string.
A flexible but stiff enough tube (out of leather?) would also work.
A well finagled coat hanger could suppress the bolt. Especially if it's not a particularly heavy bolt, as it looks like.
I was thinking along the same lines, but with a reed (or any other hollow flexible plant stem) fed over the door string until you can push the bolt out of the way with it.
And this is why you should always carry anal beads
I'd go back in time, move my time machine to where the other side of the wall will be, and then go back to that time period. problem solved! hehe
Sounds like a movie there!
that means its a teleporter AND time machine, very impressive
@@katatonikbliss Traversal also works lol, the wall doesn't necessarily exist in other times
Can't I skip all this by traveling back to present day, watching this video and then coming back?
Yes, my solution to the problem is very similar - go forward in time and find a historian to tell me how to open the lock. Perhaps even practice with a mock-up before heading back to the past and opening the door like a pro.
Or travel to the time where there was no door jet.
@@benrex7775 Yeah, if you got a time machine you could travel back to the stone age or whenever then just travel to the time you need to be at. But then your time machine would be inside and that might cause some problems.
How long is a piece of key?
@@zoetropo1 😐what flavor is the color 3?
I pull out the string and tie it to the handle. Then I pull the knot so tight that it can't be untied.
Nobody can go in, people start knocking and shouting that the door is broken.
Then, when a suitable mob has formed, and someone opens the door, Derrick will provoke that guy and lure him into a fistfight, be it by laughing when he tries to untie the knot or just by pissing on the door.
While everyone is distracted watching derrick and the guy brawling, I slip through the door.
When you're inside, you can just cut the string.
Or you could, you know, just knock.
you sir, are completely eccentrically bonkers. And its fantastic.
@JesusFriedChrist This comment is the purest evidence against the Christian Religion. No all-knowing God could possibly favour the Spandau over the Bren.
use the time machine to go back to before princess was kidnapped
That'd be too reasonable
You're here to mary the princess (he said) there is no glory without effort
It’s alright, if the guards get suspicious, I’ll just sit on a bench in. Regardless if they only just saw me sit there, I’ll be completely incognito. And if that fail, there’s always the old haystack.
"Where did he go?"
And if that doesn't work you just start freerunning up the walls and shit, jumping from rooftop to rooftop?
@@PaulTheSkeptic why of course
Well I got current knowledge, and if Hollywood taught me anything is that as soon as you approach the door, someone will exit and you can just slip in, problem solved with modern day knowledge.
4. I climb over the ridiculously low wall the door is set in.
… and open the door from the other side.
And the ridiculously blind peasants on that marketplace wouldn't notice ;)
@@ParanoidMaster I'd promise to divide whatever booty lay within, of course! Then abscond with it all out a window on the opposite side of the building complex. >_> :D
@@ParanoidMaster what are they gonna do? call the authorities upon me? i have a ray gun! i'm from the future!
*Strictly no sauntering*
You got a loicense for writing a comment about sauntering, mate???
Fortunately for me my modern knowledge included one of my archaeology professors' favorite stories of archaeologists getting things wrong. We had a detailed lesson on these keys as a way of reminding us that modern knowledge is often significantly deficient when it comes to the past. As I recall these keys were being found in Egyptian tombs and, without any other explanation for their purpose, they were ascribed "religious significance" until someone stumbled across versions still being used in rural Ethiopia. When I first saw the title of the video I assumed that these were probably the topic so I had the solution as soon as you described a hole and a string
Reminds me of the UK TV series, "Time Team"; asked about the purpose of some unexplained object, if a so-called expert replied that it likely had religious significance, that was their sly way of saying, "I don't know."
Ha ha, you'll see the same problem with ancient religion and artwork. "Fertility goddess" "Venus" "Fertility totem" "Fertility symbol" Fertility, fertility, fertility!
Hands up who would watch videos of Lloyd watching and commenting on Time Team videos? :D
@@45calibermedic To be fair, some of that was them trying to explain why there are little fat, naked statuettes with giant dicks or holes... I recall some African ones that were quite ridiculous. There is countless evidence of fertility rituals or charms. A lot of the things they say are for fertility or religious purposes is made up though.
@@45calibermedic Also, a lot of that doesn't necessarily just mean reproducing but growing crops and raising livestock. Fertile soil is important.
You are a TIME TRAVELLER!
1. Go back in time to when the door, and possibly the building, didn't exist.
2. Cross to the other side of where the door will be.
3. Go forward in time to your original time point.
Troll Trollsen
True, but personally I don’t need a time machine to go forward in time. I’ve been able to do that my whole life
@@tobie_one_kenobie2653 So you will sit down and wait some time for people to build the door?
@@SuperKratosgamer Just sit stock still on a bench for 10 years.
@Troll Trollsen - is that what Lindy said?
A wall appears in the same space where your body is. Wall is bigger and harder than you, so you go splat.
Easy. When someone comes who can open the door, you follow them in backwards before the door closes. They'll think you're leaving, so you won't arouse suspicion. (Thank you, Abbot and Costello).
In hindsight, I would make a horrible time traveler.
But if you were a time traveller you could travel back in time and not become a time traveller!
There's many better ways to use time travel powers. Like going back to the 70s and investing in Apple.
Timetravel, given the explained version here, means basicly skiping in a alternative timeline you did not travel yet to.
That means we can consequenceless grind the fuck out of it. Go to a place you know you would get relativly quick a small profit. Travel back. Get Profit. Repeat, but travel back with the provit of th privious times.
And once you have picked up the 5 Dollars for enogth times, go have fun with it.
But no, the first thing I would do with a timemachine: Abbandon Mainquest.
Second thing: Get popcorn and watch a bunch of other people fail trying to kill hitler.
Third: Maybe go arround a bit, sightseeing never hurts.
@@dasirrlicht5415 There's only one problem you'll get the same five dollar bill every time so it won't be so much a huge pay day as being able to spend five dollars as many times as you like
I got through the third question without any mistakes; gave up after the 5th and just enjoyed the knowledge!
We all thought it.. wooden door... FIRE ARROWS :D
C4 just like rust, huehue
hur dur rust xD
Dank as fuck
M2 flamethrower. All the way.
What about termites? Less conspicuous.
This would make a brilliant field puzzle for geocaching. :)
Agreed, but think of the maintenance involved.
Whoever that does this is a magnificent monster...!
"Derek's don't run" delighted that there are more fans of "Bad Taste" out there. Awesome film by Peter Jackson.
was looking for this comment
Greetings humans from the future,
One of the guards here! I followed one of you folks to your device and killed the stranger trying to use it, traveling in his place instead. After the wizardry brought me to this strange land I broke the magical device by accident. I traveled around for a while; friendly people helped me around in this frightening world (in fact one of those friendly people is helping me write this) and eventually I found this "video". Learning how the lock works I'm curious to what's behind it as well; we guards don't know what's on the other side either... Can any of you please help me get another of those magic traveling devices?
Greetings,
The Guards that's been watching one of you fiddling around with the lock for 30 minutes...
Here's a bit of advice.
However, there's a requirement, namely that the magic traveling device can be made working again to cover some short distances. If so, follow these steps:
1) Head back to somewhen between 1975-1980.
2) Keep looking for a beige box with a badge on it reading "IBM 1500". (It should look somewhat similar to an electric typewriter with a small screen. This fancy device was then called a "portable computer". There's only one kind of them and you can't go wrong. You may want to follow any men in straight suits and horn-rimmed glasses around, one of them may lead you to the device in question.)
3) Head forwards to the early 2000s (2000/2001)
4) Find a guy named John Titor (he supposedly hangs out in these magic realms, called the "Internet"). He should know all about the traveling device.
5) Bribe him with this "IBM 1500" box so that he repairs your device in return.
Done - Good luck for your journey back home!
@@noland65 I thank you for your help, I am sure it can work... however...
I have noticed you folks of the future are, although more advanced, patheticly weak and have decided to conquer me some lands to settle down. Much better than being a guard in some filthy hole.
@@noland65 I see you're a man of culture.
@@IAmCaligvla
El.Psy.Congroo
If the guards can notice the string come through, they will notice you fiddling with the lock. Put the broken key through when a guard comes act exasperated at the broken key point to some one quite far off and act as it was them that broken it. Then walk in, if stopped by guard continue talking in your foreign tongue, get slightly exasperated, call for other guards (point to them) eventually should be able to get through.
If a guard notices the door being fiddled with that means he will notice you coming in, in doing so he will either stop you and ask questions on identity or will not, if he doesn't the only thing stopping you getting in is possession of the key which you prove you have. If that is not enough, no matter how you get in you will fail.
does not work on boxes
Presumably the only way this works is they assume the door is secure and don't monitor it directly, so you have a chance to slip in. Maybe there's a patrol pattern you can take advantage of.
As I lent forward to peek through the hole.
My sword in its back scabbard knocked against the door and alerted the guard. :(
Those damn long intriqite pommels...
My Sword In A Back Scabbard Fell Out Because My Back Scabbard Has No Back So I Can Take The Sword Out Easily.
What did I tell you?
@@lindybeige A back scabbard that works - ruclips.net/video/0EWi2DnDoaI/видео.html
I was like "I know how this works! Ive read The Latchstring Mural; you just pull on the cord!"
I was highly mistaken...
Lindy, Thank you. Shame we can't "turn to page 19" in this format. If you ever do it again would you perhaps add options with clicky-links to different time parts of the vid? Don't mean to sound ungrateful, though, this is fantastic sir. May the Beige be with you.
people have done a version of this sort of thing with unlisted videos which works like a choose your own adventure book. i think that italian sword-tube guy did one.
@@dextrodemon Oh Yeah, the Metatron did, I remember that
Metatron's one was rather more basic but regardless the concept is brilliant.
I heard something about RUclips disabling the annotation system. You could have the choices and links in the description box though.
This should of been a choose your way adventure.
"I'm sorry, Time Machine!" is my new method of informing my players they have failed a challenge.
*signs up for Lindybeige insurance scheme* Wooohooo!
if the bolt is free floating couldn’t you just tilt the box sideways and smack it?
That wouldn't work with a door set in a stout wall.
With the box, yes, but the players never worked out from the outside of the box what to do. I knew where the bolt was, so knew where to bash.
@@lindybeige Lets say that I tried that box. I'm trying for 40 minutes already. OK little box, you tried, it is... HAMMER TIME!
I'm a locksmith/locksport hobbyist and I loved this video. I love learning about every type of mechanical lock there is. They funny thing about this "key" is that it seems to act more like a lockpick, since it takes practice, while a "key" is supposed to be effortless. However, they had many different lock designs back then and "security by obscurity" was used and the name "lock smith" was because they actually manually built custom locks (unless I am remembering incorrectly).
At first I was thinking, maybe it's just a knocker, where you pull the string a few times and it knocks on the door, and someone hears it and shows up and opens the door from the other side. It could even be a specific pattern/code, although people around would hear it and copy it, so not very secure, but it depends on how secure it needs to be.
You got me on the "feeding in the slack" bit.
Shoe laces? No, I sit near the door, not in front, not beside, but somewhere I can have a good look at it, and pretend to be a beggar while I wait for somebody to get to the door and open it, so I can have a good look at how it is open...
So... that would be option... ern... you didn't give me that option.
You might make a few dinari at the same time.
@Yevhenii Diomidov yes, and then some curious kid picks up your phone and runs away with it, gets executed for witchcraft; the king and evil prince have your phone, and you can't contact your time machine guy without it...
Wow! that was just one lock. I wonder how long it would take to complete the whole campaign?
Absolutely love your videos, keep it up!
We need more Pick-a-path adventures!
I just saw that I needed to be on the other side, so got back into the time machine and rematerialised on the other side of the wall...
That was very interesting. while exploring this video i thought multiple times of a completely different lockmechanism. It realy shows how "working under the wrong assumption" makes it realy hard to get the right answer, even though so sometimes i got a false positive
Kettle's on, lads.
I failed numerous times; Glad I'm not an ancient lockpicker.
Ave-a-cupa-tea
can't we just knock on the door, holding a bouquet of flowers for the princess and blag our way in?
So, just walking up behind someone as they opened the door and pushing them through wasn't an option? I would think that would have been less risky than killing someone to get a key.
Sits back and watches people suffer for two hours with his broken puzzle box. You sick, sick man!
I just arrived at this video and I'm already stressed out.
and now I'm learning about a door. Which sounds easy, but if it was easy Lindybeige wouldn't be asking us to do it. Or worse still... what if it is easy but I fail anyway....
I'm going to continue with this adventure. Wish me luck.
I was able to logic my way through most of it.
1:05 have a look at the door.
I noticed the string immediately. It is only natural for me to consider mechanisms to open the door _BEFORE_ assessing the viability of using an axe, or considering the applicability of sauntering down the street with a battering ram.
3:34 Deric
Who is this guy? Why is he my sidekick?
I guess he is just a convenient way for me to get modern lock picking tools. Which I knew I didn’t need before knowing I even had them with me (by this stage I had already looked through the hole and seen a distinct lack of things to pick at)
5:30 pulling the string.
Or course I would pull softly. If I push it through it is gone and I can’t get it back. If I pull hard and something breaks (I was thinking a trip mechanism) then I’m screwed. But if I pull it softly and nothing happens I still get the option to pull hard after that. Logic.
10:14 Oh shit, I just killed a guy.
Time machine. Try again.
(I didn’t even get a multiple choice here. Lindybeige just forced it on me. Now I have PTSD)
12:20 Deciding key length I got wrong, sort of.
My guess was "start big and that way I can shorten it if needed." which is actually redundant since apparently I have unlimited uses of a time machine.
My guess included the option of fixing my mistakes _without_ use of the time machine (if I started short, the only way to fix my mistake is to use the time machine) so I consider that a success.
17:32 “like this”
This gave me a lot of information about what I was supposed to do. Thus I correctly guessed how to tie the 2nd string to the key (18:29)
21:14 which end of the key to poke in first.
As long as the entire key gets in, it really shouldn’t matter.
That being said, pushing the key in key-string end first means *the key + the door-string + the key-string* would all be layered up while being pushed through. So it would be more likely to get stuck if I tried key-string end first. Thus… logic wins again.
22:48 was when I first got it "wrong". But again, sort of.
I guessed hold it taught.
As demonstrated at 33:07 it really shouldn't matter how you put it in, so long as the entire stick goes in. You can add the slack after the key is in while fiddling around with how to pull the strings. So again, my initial try didn't get the desired results, but didn't require a trip in the time machine to rectify.
Honestly, I don't know why any of the options for 22:48 should be considered game over.
So far I’ve made 2 “mistakes” that I’m willing to pass off as acceptable since they shouldn’t be considered as mistakes. But from here on…..
25:35
Lindybeige doesn’t give us enough options.
The role players that he was talking about had 2 hours of fiddling around with the key. Presumably it should have been possible for them to unlock it after not pulling correctly on their first try. Thus, it should be possible for me to get it right even if I didn’t get it right the first try.
And it is at this stage that I didn’t follow Lindybeige’s options. Well, because he stopped offering the correct options.
At 28:42 Lindybeige shows us a close up. And again, just like with the door at 1:05, what he says I see and what I actually see are two different things. I *didn’t* at first notice the door-string getting pulled back in whenever I pulled the key-string. But what I did notice was the “click” every time the key-string was pulled.
If I was there in person I would be _feeling_ my way around with the key. Not with knowledge of which strings to pull when, but with tactile feel of what it is hitting against the bolt and acting accordingly.
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Summary:
Twice I got into grey zones regarding my success.
And towards the end I didn’t choose the correct answer because the correct answer wasn’t any of the offered choices. But I think I would have succeeded had I been there (maybe).
I also got PTSD from murdering some guy.
@@shanerooney7288 If the key is heavy, and the string on it slides through with very little friction, and there is enough room for the key to turn about, then you may get away with not putting in enough slack, and even putting the key in backwards. With my box with its limited space and light key and rough string, you won't. Even if it were possible to correct these wrong decisions, you would be displaying an unfamiliarity with the lock, and would have to spend time jiggling things about, which could draw suspicion. You are right in that I did not talk about what information the 'click' might give you. What do you think causes the click? The back of the key hitting one of the inside walls of the box? At 25:35, as my later speech I think makes clear, I COULDN'T give you all the pulling options.
Hello -Snepai- Lindybeige.
When the role-players where fiddling around with the lock for 2 hours, presumable they had _a chance to succeed._ Even if they didn't succeed on their first try. (or were they screwed after the first 10 seconds but you let them suffer for the full 2 hours?)
When you pull the strings, does it not remove the slack?
*>>> Putting the above two together.* Having pulled on the strings incorrectly and removed any slack that was there, don't the role-players still have a chance to rectify this mistake by adding more slack afterwards?
The method to push in the string, could that not have been repeated regardless of the key placement?
*"What do you think causes the click? The back of the key hitting one of the inside walls of the box?"*
Hitting _something._
Watching the video on RUclips doesn't give nearly as much information as holding the box in my hand; which was my point. I would have a better "feel" for the situation, including literally feeling around the lock mechanism with the key.
You couldn't give all the pulling options. But you could have given the right one. It would have stuck out like a saw thumb, and everyone watching would have said "well obviously we are supposed to choose that option".
But the fact is that the _correct_ answer was never given, and thus could never have been guessed by anyone sticking with only your presented options.
Being unfamiliar with the lock and drawing suspicion? Yes, I'm guilty of that.
Holy crap, I got it all right. The option of the key length I chosed 4 but you said that it could work but I might find it difficult so I say good enough. String through the hole to the notch check. Though my first thoughts were I was pull the piece of wood against some sort of hook latch. So my idea of pulling both strings were was wrong. However after ten minutes of brainstorming when I paused the video, I thought about Lindy talking about tensile strength about the key about if you made the key too long. So this got me thinking that I must be aligning the key that affects the tumbler. I figured I got it picked 1. And saved the princess
Everytime I click on Lindy video I think. Oh God 30 minute... No way I watch all that. Then I hear something intriguing then another and another and then the video is over. Thanks Beige.
My first thought was that the rope was some kind of bell you ring to get in lol
That actually is a cute and clever way to have a door bell!
pretty proud of myself for getting every single one right
Do you ever think about how much the comment section changes based on when you watch the video? Like the 100th viewer would have a different conception of the video than the 100,000th
soooo you basically just gave me the solution to one tough question we had to solve at my LARP and now I know how to deal with players wanting to lock their buildings and thieves wanting to enter. Just give the people wanting to lock their doors this system, the key, and the knowledge of how to make it work.
Give to the thieves with the appropriate skill the key, without the knowledge on how to use it and they have to learn it during an event. :)
Wow you got me really excited. Every time i got one right. I yelled " hell yeah "
The answer is C4. Perhaps some TnT, mix it up a little.
He's British, that's PE-4 for them.
A little C4 knockin' at your door...
that's pretty much a modern Warp Spell
Im a little german boy and you are the best storytelling uncle i could ever wish for
2 Questions: how does one fetch the key after use?
Also, how does this help in an ancient world where everyone knows how it works? Is it merely a lock against ignorant people? Such that if you are rich you know how these things work but commoners don't, or that most people don't bother with locks so only spy like people have such things? Or is there something about the key that allows it to differentiate between doors?
1. once the door is open you can remove your key and string. Then it's simply a matter of pulling the door string to re-lock the door. (being careful the door string stays in the hole while you close it, otherwise you've effectively locked yourself out.
2. the length of the key matters, so you'd need the right key. size of the string, size of the hole. you could also tailor the shape of the back of the hole to only accept certain shapes (like you'd need to carve the key, just a round stick wouldn't work.) similar to today's locks, having the right key is needed, but you could, with enough information, duplicate the key. locks were also less common anyway, because you if had little worth stealing by a cat burglar, you likely weren't rich enough to afford a door thick enough to stop a good old kick.
@@Jabrwock You lock the door by pulling the string, so you could only lock yourself out by locking the door and then pushing the string back through the hole.
@@johnturner7790 Good point. Yeah, I think I was confusing "how do you retrieve the key after use?" which of course would be you take it off the back of the door once you've opened it.
I’m watching now, i’m at ghe commercial and this is one of the best and entertaining video I ever saw on RUclips. Maybe the best.
THANK YOU 🙏🏻
I got all the answers right, BUT that lock was way more clever than the simple ones I was imagining. Great video!
1. back to the future
2. google this type of lock
3. prepare the key
4. open the door
Alternatively, let's assume your google-fu is weak or it's not there:
1. back to the future
2. grab a dentist mirror (we know we can have tools on us, the other guy has modern lockpicks)
3. peek through the lock
4. come up with a way to open it- I'm pretty sure there's a dramatically easier way, for example an L-shaped pipe that you just push a wire through might work
@@MalcolmPL old locks
A semirigid hose or pipe could open it if the string is tied to the bolt.
Otherwise an L shaped wire hanger would also work assuming there's room under or over the door to get it through.
Guard looks at it and says "what in the hidly fuck is that, time to kill man with weird mirror."
To the future -> ??? -> Use multiple rocket launcher on door
What an epic way to showcase interesting lock mechanism. Well done , Sir!
this lock is brilliant! with so many different ways to try to open it it is very much like a physical password and could certainly be used for custom security solutions if you upgrade the material used in its creation
Anyone know what this kind of lock is called?
It's called a "fucking annoying" lock
A assume he's asking because he wants to build or buy that lock.
@@maximilienrobespierre7927 Correct, i am asking to build. It's an interesting design and I go to a few events where some people might be interested in it.
@@grantcolgan3001 Personally I'm interested in what this lock is too, hope Lloyd tells us.
What i found so far is that lock originated from Northern Africa (Egypt, Nubia, c. 2000 BC) and was popular on Sicily. It was used in Ethiopia at least until early 20th century.
Google "Ancient Egyptian lock - c 2000BC" , there is a page screenshot posted by someone. Book name is Ancient Inventions (James, Thorpe).
You just earned +10 Kudos Points for knowing that Derek's Don't Run. Well played, sir.
Knock. Make friends. Go in for tea and crumpets.
@cozmos222
Did you save the virgin princess?
Well, she's still a princess...
Wow, I was sure I had it until the end. I thought the bolt had to be drawn toward the door, not pushed toward the doorframe - I'm used to this modern kind of lock where the bolt is always within the door. So I thought you had to simply push the key through the hole angled away from the lock, then pull the bolt string to pull the bolt. But that kind of lock would be susceptible to there being too little friction to keep the string from being able to be pulled from the outside without the key.
Amazing. Such a lesson in humility from cleverly locked door. I feel empty and quite bitter, but in a good way. Live and learn, I guess
Enable 'Duke Mode'.....Employ 'Mighty Boot'.
Cool lock !
Simpler solution : set the time machine to deposit you on the other side of the door, by moving the machine a few feet to the left (in your local time frame).
The giddiness that filled my heart when you told me I was on an adventure is too much for me to describe. I miss adventuring. Thank you Lloyd
Great music for waking up with my morning coffee.
Huzzah! I only had to use the time machine once... My basic assumption on the operation of the mechanism wasn't too far off, either. Thanks, Lindybeige, for making me feel smart today.
If the door opens away from you, the hinges could not possibly be on the right side, OUTSIDE the door. They would have to be on the inside... Just saying....
If the door and the frame are cut as a triangle in the depth direction it migt be possible, but it would weaken a lot the door.
@@IsaacPiera If... But it isnt... You get the idea, the hinges are on the outside on the door. I know its nothing, and means nothing for the adventure, but it made me start the whole puzzle picturering it wrong, because I thought the door could open towards you. Nvm, it is not important, since I eventually got it and then lost it... ^^ I went out on the third choice though.. Where is a greataxe, when you need one.... Puny wood...
You can tell from the outside that the hinges must be on the right, but they will be hidden behind the frame.
At about halfway through the video, I think the way it works is it's like you have to pull the string, but from the other side, & the key is a device for pushing the string with it taut.
Please do more of these.
My solution to the door problem:
Step 1: Realise that this is not your house and that people have tried very hard to keep people out
Step 2: Realise that even if you get through the door, people would notice that you do not belong there and call the guards.
Step 3: Walk away.
Or - Solution #2:
Step 1: Before returning to the past, buy a MP5 Submachinegun.
Step 2: Go to the past, knock on the door.
Step 3: When someone opens, shoot everyone.
Step 4: Loot the place.
I think I read about something like this. They kept finding items like this at archaeological sites in Britian, but they never knew what the were used for. It was a mystery. Then one day someone at the university seen the items, and said, "Where you get the door lock?" The man was studying Ethiopian culture, and that's how they locked their doors. It more important than solving the mystery of the items, because It was a proof to theory that ideas spread from one culture, and you prove that there was this interconnection between cultures seperated by distance, and time. I mean seriously, who invent that thing twice? It's not a popular theory that artifacts are proof of cultural contact. In America, the use of the bow and arrow is consider by some that some out side culture had contact with the naitive Americans. Seriously, you see where arrow head were first used. and when. You track the spread of the idea of bow and arrows in the archaeological records. They think that maybe the chinese might have sent ship to east coast, introduce the concept of bow and arrows. Thanks, love your videos.
I can see your point. Some ideas are just obvious. When the look at the archaeological records they can see how some ideas naturally come about from obvious reasoning. People naturally throw objects, so you can imagine you don't need someone to teach you to throw a pointy stick . It has been seen in the archaeological record that people invented a stick with a notch in it so they could extend there the length of there arm and throw a spear harder. Spear extender are the result of common thought. The Bow and Arrow is an abstraction, that is not the result of common observation. You can fallow the idea of Bow and Arrows in the archeaological record as traveled across time and space. The same is true for the Native Americans. When Eurpeans came to the Americas, the natives had bows and arrow. If you look at the New World archaeological records we can see when, and were the first arrow head were found. Some people think that Bow and Arrows were introduced to the Americas on the East coast by explores from China. It works both ways, the hammock was invented in the Americas, spread rappidly out to the whole world.
Ugh, you made become a google know it all. The best Acrheological evidence indicates that the the technology of bows first appeared 18,000 years ago. That's well before the last age. There is ample envidence that there was trade amoung the people living on the coast of the Artic Ocean. Stones that can only be found in Siberia, are found in the Americas, while the same is true material only found in the Americas are found in Siberia. I can't imagine people would trade items, but not ideas. While I was doing the Google know it all thing, I keep running into the words, "Possible", "Perhaps". I was wrong about the first evidence of bows being found on the west coast. I'm not disagree with the concept of convergent technologlical concepts, but there just isn't any proof either way. Sometimes ideas seem so blindingly obvious, we can't imagine some one was the first to think of it.
There is a similar ancient lock that is still in use in Africa. A South American museum has one. It was proudly displayed for decades with none knowing how it worked. A visitor/tourist from Africa explained it and showed the archeologists how it worked.
This gave me the idea to make a simple wooden safe, to keep valuable out of the hands of people with speedy hands.
You could make a small box to keep valuables in your car or trailer too, when you go on holiday.
It won't be as good as as good safe, but an awful lot cheaper and less conspicuous.
Can't handle it
I have seen this lock and key before, but, I had forgotten a few steps. Thank you for posting this :)
I quite like the background of this video. It summarises the channel quite well. A WAR G book, a hoplite sword with sling, mandatory long gold-ish post which every self respecting adventurer should have, hats both military and civilian and a beige circle thing. An oil painting of Her Majesty the Queen hanging on the back grey-beige cardboard (?) backing would look marvelous.
This has been one of the most unexpectedly interesting videos I have seen.
(3:00) You go down on one knee to pretend to tie your shoe laces.
But oops, you've gone back to a time before laces was a thing, and now you've drawn a lot of attention to yourself.
Fixing your sandals :^)
In the field of security this type of thing is called "security through obscurity". So the fact that there is a secret to opening the lock, and that nobody knows the secret, makes it incredibly secure. The problem with security through obscurity is that as soon as the secret is out and everybody knows the trick, it totally destroys the security of the lock. BUT, so long as the secret is contained to just one or two people then it is better than pretty much anything else.
unhinge the door. easy. next!
Everyone invents really clever locks, but even on the electronic locks, you just toil off the hinges,and you get access.
they're on the other side :)
Perfect timing for Australians (Queenslanders) at 8pm
Yep
I'm in Japan, and it's just turned 8 here too (great timing!) :P
QUEEEEENNNSSSLLLLAAAAAANDDDDEEEEEEEEEEEERRR
Maybe time is right but he didn't release upside down version of the video for you
Huh, I'm just up to tend to critters before work this morning. (USA)
The Lock Picking Lawyer should do an ancient locks video with Lindy!
This felt more like some kind of sick and twisted engineering exercise rather than a choose your own adventure
I learned this lesson in physics class. It's pretty humbling.
Set fire to the other side of the square. Wait until someone comes through the door and sneek in. Derrick should be sent to do this.
I am jealous of your friends Lloyd. This is just fantastic!
i love your videos because of the passion you put into your content
That was really well structured and entertaining.
Use the door knob like a normal person.
There is no doorknob, it's a handle to pull the door shut and naught else.
Pc Genie Pull the handle than
CHANNELS LIKE THESE NEED MORE ATTENTION
This was great! It was definitely worth the wait.
This is giving me flashbacks to chess lecture videos pausing the video calculating and trying to find the right variation
4:23 Lloyd subtly hints that he is, in fact, a time traveler.
More play along videos please, this was fun.
We need more of these types of videos! This was a lot fun - and now I'm mentally exhausted Lol
To be honest, that wizard guy who decided to just warp the thing out of the box sounds like a buzzkill, he sounds like the kind of guy who pays to a mercenarie to finish the quest for him.
If I ever go back in time I'll ad a small flashlight and a tiny dentist mirror on a stick to my lockpicking kit
pretty sure I could get that open with explosives. Not used to get through but for the morale boost of seeing the darn contraption blown to smitherines. Also you could follow the guy with a key home, hold his kid at knifepoint, use the key to indicate that you want him to unlock the door, and once through remember to leave no witnesses. Personally, I prefer explosives way.